We know that listening to our audiences, amplifying their voices, and building conversation around our work all make for good journalism. But do these pillars of community engagement also make for goo...

Have journalists ever been under pressure from so many directions and how can they combat those pressures? This session looks at the power of propaganda machines to influence, or try to influence, the...

Electionland was a unique collaborative project to track and cover voting problems during the 2016 US elections across the whole country and in real-time. It was also the largest social newsgathering ...

More than 200 million people got online for the first time in 2016. But in many cases, the type of internet that they accessed was already controlled and censored by their governments or internet serv...

WordPress empowers more than 27% of the web. From the tiniest personal blog to the largest media website, its development is fully executed by a community effort. The software is released under the Ge...

2016 was both the worst year and the best year for political fact-checking since it rebooted for the internet age. This panel will assess the reach, successes and failures of the instrument on both s...

What are best practices for reporters out in the field using live video? What should news organizations think about when handling live video? In this workshop, you will learn best ethical practices f...

There is a fil rouge connecting the 2001 law on publishing and the words of the President of the Antitrust Authority, Pitruzzella, fifteen years later: the idea that the Internet is a threat. Since th...

Interview of Craig Newmark by Mario Calabresi. On 01 March 2017 Craig Newmark posted a statement entitled Why putting an end to fake news is good for democracy in which he said that the Craig Newma...

The UK's tabloid press have long disliked the EU - with stories focused on bendy bananas, sugar mountains and an unaccountable leadership. How much impact did this coverage have on the country's re...